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Having worked as an assistant to acclaimed filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski, Isaacs' reveals a great capacity to establish privileged relationships with the protagonists in his documentary films, creating a succession of deeply moving and uniquely original views of modern Britain. His camera's presence fades and is forgotten...
We present three of Marc Isaacs most remarkable films: Lift; Travellers and Calais: The Last Border.
Special Features- New filmed interview with director Marc Isaacs
- Booklet essays
- All new director-approved digital transfers from original materials with restored picture and sound
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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital Stereo ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Booklet, Cast/Crew Interview(s), Interactive Menu, Remastered, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: Collection of three documentaries by the filmmaker Marc Isaacs. After working as an assistant to the renowned filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski, Isaacs has created three films that each capture a part of modern life in Britain. The first, 'Lift' (2001), is filmed in the elevator of a tower block in the East End of London, and captures the different reactions and behaviour of those who enter it. The second, 'Travellers' (2002), is a touching film about the human need for love, which is shown through the stories of five different people Isaacs meets on trains and at train stations across England. The third film, 'Calais - The Last Border' (2003), examines a host of interesting characters that includes refugees and migrants desperate to cross The Channel to England, and Steve who runs an English pub in the French harbour town. ...Marc Isaacs Collection ( Lift / Travellers / Calais: The Last Border )
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Three poignant documentary films:
LIFTS was my favourite - the director interviews residents in a tower block lift, over a period of about two weeks.
The film has an astonishing ability to capture the personality of each resident, through a careful study of where they are going out to and coming back from.
Brilliantly edited, the most humourous of the three films.
TRAVELLERS is a very emotional look at the loneliness and heartache often conjured whilst travelling by train.
A powerful and stunning piece with a focus on love lost, love found and regret.
CALAIS is a stark portrait of a town in decline. Brilliant juxstaposition between the scoff faced English day trippers searching for cheap booze, and the cold, snivelling asylum seekers existing on the streets.
Thrown into the mix are two English ex pats, trying to make money against the odds.
Why waste hours watching reality tv shows that have little to do with people of merit, when there are stunning emotive documentaries such as these available?
LIFTS was my favourite - the director interviews residents in a tower block lift, over a period of about two weeks.
The film has an astonishing ability to capture the personality of each resident, through a careful study of where they are going out to and coming back from.
Brilliantly edited, the most humourous of the three films.
TRAVELLERS is a very emotional look at the loneliness and heartache often conjured whilst travelling by train.
A powerful and stunning piece with a focus on love lost, love found and regret.
CALAIS is a stark portrait of a town in decline. Brilliant juxstaposition between the scoff faced English day trippers searching for cheap booze, and the cold, snivelling asylum seekers existing on the streets.
Thrown into the mix are two English ex pats, trying to make money against the odds.
Why waste hours watching reality tv shows that have little to do with people of merit, when there are stunning emotive documentaries such as these available?
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
I had seen the short film LIFT at a festival some years back and was blown away. I was struck by what a brilliant, yet brilliantly simple, idea it was - man stands with camera in high-rise lift and lets the lives of the residents pass by in front of his lens. Some talk with him, some ignore him. The result is an unbelievably warm, touching and often hilarious piece of documentary. I could have watched hours of it!
Great to see it again available now on DVD - along with two more of Marc Isaacs films, TRAVELLERS which follows several people that Isaacs meets at railway stations and on trains, and CALAIS which visits the French border town and meets residents, refugees and day-trippers.
Both films are again wonderfully, instantly compulsive. CALAIS in particular is a brilliant portrait of lives in flux - and is often unbearably moving and near heart-breaking.
It's great that documentary films like these are available for all to see and treasure.
Great to see it again available now on DVD - along with two more of Marc Isaacs films, TRAVELLERS which follows several people that Isaacs meets at railway stations and on trains, and CALAIS which visits the French border town and meets residents, refugees and day-trippers.
Both films are again wonderfully, instantly compulsive. CALAIS in particular is a brilliant portrait of lives in flux - and is often unbearably moving and near heart-breaking.
It's great that documentary films like these are available for all to see and treasure.
This is beautiful documentary film making. A pared down idea, so simple that at first, we watch it and may think, hell, that's great why didn't I think of that. The secret lies in the honesty and empathy of the film maker, who in this short and simple film, has the warmth, intelligence and the courage to let people speak for themselves, and thus holds up a mirror to our own quiet and usually silent human pains and sorrows; grief,loneliness, disappointment, but also to the subtle and not so subtle humour which we use to cope with all of this. It's a lovely film,a lovely,funny and deeply moving poem of a film, an enriching experience.
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